Recent content by RoscoeBryant

Shouldn't have "de-gunned" the Bobbys then, if they are worried they will be outgunned...

The collectors permit has the extreme disadvantage of being a collectors permit and therefore not as accessible and not as interesting for first time gun owners (and as far as I know you are not automatically allowed to obtain ammunition for guns with Rote Waffenbesitzkarte?). So yeah, for...

I'm sorry but I have to correct you on that one: Germany is one of the worst countries for gun owners you can find in Europe. The others however are fine when talking in "European standards". The problem with pro gun organisations in Europe in my opinion mainly has two factors: - The split...

Funny thing is, how different that attitude is formed with countries sharing similar experiences. Czech Republic, Estonia, Serbia, partly Croatia etc. for example formed a pretty strong gun culture and a lot healthier attitude towards guns as a means of defending themselves due to their...

Switzerland is not close to the US if you are talking about laws. The countries closest to most of the US States are Czech republic and Estonia, as they have shall issue CC (in the rest of Europe it is may issue, and usually pretty hard to get). Switzerland has a pretty strong gun culture, but...

What I do not get about comments like those is the extreme simplification of very complex issues, which inevitably leads to wrong statements. While generally speaking, in most US-states most of the gun-related laws are considerably more liberal than in most european countries, it definetly is...

Even most Austrians don't understand Steirisch ;) I was talking about the principle of "individual, exceptional" in that case, for which there seems to be movement outside of CZ to interpret it very widely (contrary to what I expected). However, if the comission wants, they can come up with any...

Interesting - if that passes, than it will work for CZ as well. The chances are increased by the fact, that it will be a relatively "quiet" process and the commission won't have to act against it just to avoid looking like fools (more than they already do)in the public eye, simply beacause no...

I definetly see that approach working with shall-issue carry permits (which certainly will be under threat in the future), but I have doubts about it working for cat.A licensing. As the directive states the mentioned "(...)in individual cases, exceptionally (...)" a general licensing for any A6...

The problem that I see with that (not me personally - naturally - but regarding the directive) is, that those firearms are owned by citizens themselves. If the firearms were owned by the governement (de jure - de facto they could be in posession of individuals), they would not be affected by the...

Thank you for updating these pages, I really like the work you're doing. I saw nothing important being left out! As for the militia exception - would that be a realistic approach? According to the directive, a state must have had the practice of transferering firearms to militia members in place...

A lot of the directive seems to be drafted closely to german gun laws in general, as they have things like required shooting club membership for 12 months etc. already in place. Even for newly acquired magazines, it is a load of unnecessary and in practice unmanagable administrative work, let...

Sorry, I have not been precise enough - the part about convertability is included in the "explanation" section, not in the actual amendment. You are correct, the amendment itself only outlaws converted firearms. As I have stated - it is up to the government, if they want to find a workaround...

Some thoughts I would like to add to the implementation of the directive: IF a country/government wants, they can effectively bypass most major points of the directive except for the magazine restrictions. They can grant licenses for cat. A firearms for "educational, cultural, including film...

Hearing protection is a very important point, mainly for the own forces. But we will see, maybe there will be some more information be revealed! Well, hunting in Austria is a lot different than it is in the US as I have got to know it. First of all, there is no hunting season, you can hunt all...